Choose Kindness Today

By Carolyn Kates, Clarity with Carolyn

Yesterday someone asked me “how will we make it through the next four years?”

After some thought, my response was that instead of getting back at someone, looking to retaliate, withdrawing or numbing ourselves out, we need to cultivate kindness, even though it may not be what we are truly feeling.

For you see, kindness is powerful. In fact, being kind is the most important thing that we do in life, even though lots of us don’t put any importance on the act of being kind.

Kindness, in truth, may be our only hope to fight the world’s negativity and conflict.

So, today, set your intentions to choose to be kind. Choose to compliment over criticism. Choose compassion over judgment, even when you feel that you are entitled to your judgments.

Today, choose to value kindness over being “right”. To treat others with kindness, we have to be willing to agree to disagree. We can’t bully others into our point of view. Instead, we have to value being kind over being right.

Today, if you really want to change the world you live in, the simplest thing you can do is be kind. Be kind consistently. Strive to be kind, even when you don’t feel like it.

Today, choose to be kind because it is the easiest thing that you can do to make the world a better place.

Just for today, I no longer choose to judge or criticize anyone, including myself. I choose to be kind. I choose to have compassion for all, including myself. I choose to see the world as a friendly place and out of this situation only good will come.

And so it is.